BC is before christ
AD is after death (of Christ)
However scientists usually use BCE and CE to avoid religious confusion (Before Common Era, and Common Era)
The scientific revolution brought many discoveries in several fields,such as medicine, astronomy, mathematics,chemistry,replacing the alchemy and several other. This period took place around mid 16th Century.
One which has a deep impact on daily life is the evolution of mechanical devices, among those, mechanical calculators,and specifically the pinwheel calculator, invented by Gottfried Leibniz in 1685, which was used in the arithmometer, another kind of mechanical claculator. With these facts,we could state that:
<em>The work of Gottfired Liebniz following the advances in his inventions, allowed hm to refine the binary system, which opened the way to modern computing systems.</em>
Aeschylus- he is often recognized as the father of Greek tragedy for his writings. He wrote tragedies about the difficult choice men had to make and its consequences ultimately raising the emerging art of tragedy in poetry and theatrical power.
<span>The new deal policies proposed by President Roosevelt to resolve the economic effects of the Great Depression are:
- Declaring a Bank Holiday so that the government could inspect all US banks
- Making emergency loans available for homeowners and farmers who had not been able to pay their mortgages
- giving citizens emergency public jobs to make up from the surge in the unemployment rate
- putting money into the economy to help it work again
- asking businesses to voluntarily follow codes to set better standards
- working with farmers to deal with farm surpluses until the crop prices rose.
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation provided insurance to bank deposits
- built dams along the Tennessee River to help with flooding and electricity
- Securities and Exchange Commission was created to make sure the stock market was kept in check
- gave workers the right to unionize
- provided workers with unemployment insurance, old age pensions, and life insurance which we still rely on this day.</span>
Calvinism is basically Protestantism, but since John Calvin played a huge role in Calvinism, it is named after him. The people who practiced Calvinism, often believed they were "chosen" by God to like on their life and do what they are told. They thought that God had picked them to make a perfect Christian community, as they had lived good and true lives so they were hand chosen by God himself. They trusted in the fact that if they did this and created a pure Christian community, while living a happy life with no sin, they would earn salvation from God.
